Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Pig. 4. Fig. 5. (Fig. 4). The greatest difference exists in various persons as to the freedomwith which they can bear pressure on the dorsum of the tongue. In somethat organ can be readly depressed, and the top of the epiglottis broughtinto view without causing any inconvenience. In others this cannot bedone without exciting cough, or sensations of suffocation or sickness. Ina few, the parts are so sensitive that the slightest touch induces latter cases are rare, and reiterated efforts in the vast majority ofinstances,
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Pig. 4. Fig. 5. (Fig. 4). The greatest difference exists in various persons as to the freedomwith which they can bear pressure on the dorsum of the tongue. In somethat organ can be readly depressed, and the top of the epiglottis broughtinto view without causing any inconvenience. In others this cannot bedone without exciting cough, or sensations of suffocation or sickness. Ina few, the parts are so sensitive that the slightest touch induces latter cases are rare, and reiterated efforts in the vast majority ofinstances, by educating the parts as it were to submit to interference, en-able the practitioner, after a shorter or longer time, easily to bring intoview the tonsils, pillars of the fauces, uvula, back of the pharynx, andvpper edge of the epiglottis. In this manner enlargement or ulcerationsot the tonsils or uvula can be readily seen, as well as the various morbidulcerations of the mucous membrane. Among these, follicular pharyngitis Fig. 4. Spatulse for depressing t
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